THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



SOUTH SIDE. 



Alcove Xo. 



1. Titanotheres 1 ,, • ■, , , /.i i i >. i.. i r i 

 ,,, . Penssodactyls ( odd-toed hoofed 



2. Rhinoceroses V , , 



, ^ . 1 mammals). 



3. Horses and lapirs 1 



NORTH SIDE. 



Alcove No. 



1 . The most primitive hoofed mammals (Amblypods and Con- 



dylarths). 



2. Insectivores, Rodents and the most primitive Mammals 



generally. 



3. Flesh-eating Mammals (Creodonts and Carnivores). 



4. ^larine Mammals (Seals, Cetaceans and Sirenians). 



5. Proboscidea (Elephants and Mastodons) in the center of 



the hall on the north side. 



6. Pigs, Peccaries, Elotheres and other Artiodactyls ("even- 



toed" hoofed mammals) with simple conical cusps in 

 the molar teeth. 



7. Creodonts and other primitive Artiodactyls with crescentic 



molar teeth. 



8. Pecora, or Ruminating Artiodactyls (those that chew the 



cud). 



9. Edentates and South American fauna generally. 



As a centerpiece has been placed the great head and tusks 

 of the Imperial Mammoth, and with it a gigantic tusk of the 

 Woolly Mammoth, from the new Siberian island, which has been 

 secured recently through the Department of Anthropology. 



The guide leaflet descriptive of the Hall of Vertebrate Palason- 

 tolog\' is undergoing complete revision and expansion to meet 

 the new conditions, and will be issued in the fall. 



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